Growing Up Bank Street: A Greenwich Village Memoir

by Donna Florio

Book Overview

A vivid memoir of life in one of New York City's most dynamic neighborhoods

Growing Up Bank Street is an evocative, tender account of life in Greenwich Village, on a unique street that offered warmth, support, and inspiration to an adventurous and openhearted young girl. Bank Street, a short strip of elegant brownstones and humble tenements in Greenwich Village, can trace its lineage back to the yellow fever epidemics of colonial...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1479803200
• ISBN13: 9781479803200
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Washington Mews Books/Nyu Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.7" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Very detailed memories

This memoir was very rich in details of the famous and infamous, sane and insane people that lived on and near Bank Street. So many little snippets though I wish it was in a more chronological manner because sometimes on one page the author is a little girl and then the next she is a teenager and then fully grown. That was a bit jarring and confusing. I liked the bits with the theater and working it, that was slightly more chronological. I would say this book reads a bit like the ramblings of an older relative relating little tidbits of fascination as they travel in time in their head. Though the stories are very well researched to make sure that they are true. I found that pretty interesting all the effort that the author put into making sure it was right. That was also written about in the book. The pictures in the middle were cool too and helped me to picture certain moments that had been mentioned. I think the only thing that would make this better would have been to have all the residents have their own sections and more chronological instead of paragraphs here and there making it hard for me to remember who was which story. Definitely an interesting book though and made me think how interesting my neighbors might be if I really got to know them.